Time running out fast for Pardew

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Seven months ago, Alan Pardew’s team came agonisingly close to winning the FA Cup, but the West Ham United manager could be out of a job before his side face Manchester United at Upton Park on Sunday after he was summoned to a meeting with the club’s new Icelandic owners last week and told that results had to improve.

The meeting was hastily arranged after Eggert Magnússon watched his investment lose 2-0 at home to Wigan Athletic on Wednesday and the chairman told Pardew that the result, which dropped the club into the relegation zone, was unacceptable, that his training